Excellent letter, hard to argue with much there - apart from the view that Stonewall are experts on and represent LGBT people, which as an L person I'd personally like to argue with.
It occurred to me reading about the ONS debacle, that if the govt are involving themselves in situations where it seems to be a fully accepted thing that democracy and standard expectations must be abandoned as just too stressful for some, then there have to be some urgent and publicly visible statistics on this.
Is this going to be universally applied to all groups, that if any group may be voice feeling stressed that democratic debate and process should not take place? Because I don't see that working for women.
If this is going to be applied selectively on the grounds of a group's exceptional vulnerability, then that vulnerability needs to be very robustly and thoroughly evidenced via proper and open process.
And even if it is robustly evidenced, it would then need to be very thoroughly unpacked as to how just avoiding democratic process is the only and least harmful action to take, considering the unprecedented and extremely unfair disadvantage this accords to much larger populations. And why other less radical strategies to address this cannot be considered instead.